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- The 44th president of the United States President Barack Obama will remain in office for four more years. President Obama won the 2012 election against Governor Mitt Romney with 303 electoral votes to 206 electoral votes.

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- So what are we all thinking in the Hamptons about the Joe Biden and Paul Ryan Vice-Presidential Debate? For most of us, we are indeed part of the 1% that has been a central point of the conversation, yet in the Hamptons, our 1% has always supported the 99%!

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- Although she will not be up for re-election until next year, Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst held a meet and greet fundraiser at the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton on Thursday

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- Congressmen Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Walter Jones (R-NC) have demanded that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) immediately suspend a program to train workers in the Philippines for jobs in English-speaking call centers.

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- Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. announced $66,800,000 of NY Works project funding has been allocated to help address some of those most important and critical coastal erosion projects on the South Fork.

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- The Suffolk County Legislature unanimously approved Resolution 214-2012, A Local Law to establish the Gabreski Airport Conservation and Assessment Committee to create a prominent community-based panel that reviews proposed leases and licenses at Gabreski Airport and makes recommendations.

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- A major factor in the East End sky-high property taxes is unfunded mandates from the State. Local governments are forced to pay certain costs, and those costs show up in our property tax bills. It's a real problem."

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- In an effort to save local governments money, I supported a measure in the final 2012-2013 State Budget that will allow County Clerks to share in the fees collected online from State Department of Motor Vehicles transactions.

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- Led by Congressman Tim Bishop, senior Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee joined with more than 80 Members of the House of Representatives to introduce the bipartisan job-creating transportation bill that passed the Senate last week.

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- Congressman Tim Bishop announced his strong opposition to the Republican Budget plan passed in the Budget Committee last night that doubles down on last year's proposal to expand tax breaks for special interests at the expense of seniors.

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- State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I, D, WF-Sag Harbor) announced Assembly passage of legislation establishing the fourth Tuesday in June as New York's primary election day for both federal and state offices.